The paying customer
Magician for institutions
A departing senior partner takes twenty years of relationship intelligence with them. That is an unbooked liability on every relationship business — and the wedge this product prices.
The succession problem, stated plainly
Funds, family offices, banks, universities, advisory firms: their differentiating asset is trust held by a few senior people, and it depreciates to zero on departure. CRM mandates fail because they ask people to hand their leverage to their employer. Magician’s architecture changes the deal: the partner’s graph stays theirs — the institution buys routability and the sealed record of outcomes. Succession becomes a consented handover, not an archaeology project. The full argument is in Relationship Succession.
What the institutional product includes
- Private graph intelligence — latent-edge detection and stale-edge renewal across the institution’s consented graphs.
- Relationship succession — the map of which relationships exist, what they produced, and where authority lives, without holding anyone’s contacts.
- Capability discovery — “who in our network can do X,” answered from the graph instead of the Monday meeting. The fund case walks it.
- Permissioned federation — Circles: scoped, revocable cross-graph queries with membership never exposed.
- Outcome analytics — sealed, offline-verifiable records of what the network actually produced: the honest answer to “what does your platform do.”
What it costs, honestly
Individual Magician is free or nearly so — a single private graph must be valuable on day one, with zero network effects, or the product does not deserve a network. Institutions pay serious SaaS for the five items above. Published pricing arrives when the Stage 1 gate opens; what will not happen is unverifiable enterprise theatre — this estate publishes its numbers, including the unflattering ones, at flashynetwork.com, and Magician will be held to the same habit.
First conversations: a fund or family office whose intents are real. The join page says where the door is today.